It’s always nice when someone wants to buy your products, especially when they have taken a lot of work to create. My first comic book (+ CD) was sold on Friday. This makes me happy.
Monthly Archives: May 2014
All the Drama
I’ve been reading a lot of easy readers in French and German of late, and some of the recent ones are of the Lectures CLE en français facile series. I’m now at a point where reading the 500-600 word vocab ones are easy enough for the story to be enjoyed.
In the past I’ve not looked forward to reading abridged and adapted versions of classics, either because I wanted to read the original at some point, or just because I found them uninteresting. However, I’ve changed my mind. The CLE 500-word vocabulary adaptations of En Famille (by Hector Malot) and La Guerre des Boutons (by Louis Pergaud) were both thoroughly engaging. I’m now reading Jacquou le croquant by Eugene le Roy, which is a 600-word vocab adaptation. There seems to be a lot of 19th century French literature about people living in poverty and hard times, and CLE has made it accessible to learners of French. I find the lengths of the books to be about right too, at about 50 pages of story – probably about 12,000 words all up.
I hope that I can find a similar resource for German.
Gnomeville Episode 1 is done!
Having given myself a hard deadline of Friday so it would be ready for launching at a concert of French music, it is done!
The “I Can’t Believe I’m Reading French” Comic Book Series, Episode 1: Gnomeville: Dragon!
- 28-page booklet plus audio CD containing 3 stories in comic book format, a crossword, a song and a language summary.
- Assumes no prior knowledge of French but a native or near-native English speaking background.
- Introduces 12 of the twenty most commonly occurring words in French newspapers, one new word per page of the Gnomeville story.
- Uses the words that are common to French and English to ensure that all words in the stories are familiar, such as “dragon”, “gnome”, “arrive”.
- The Fido story provides further reading practice, ensuring each target word has been read at least 5 times.
- The crossword allows you to actively use the language to increase retention
- The songs provide further practice, including pronunciation
- The narration provides pronunciation information and listening practice
- The Taxi story is a nice easy story to read after the other stories.
- The audio CD contains the stories read by a native speaker, plus two songs related to the stories.
- $20 plus postage from Melbourne Australia
- Currently only available from me directly, but stay tuned for updates.
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